Willeyetta Brown-Mitchell
Honors Forensics

Course Information

This course focuses on crime scene investigation, including evidence collection, processing a scene, and lab techniques used to decipher and incriminate the wrongdoer. Through lab work, field trips, demonstrations by experts, and guest speakers, students explore major areas of forensic science: fingerprinting, shoe and tire impressions, identification of hair, fibers and glass fragments, DNA; application of force and motion from blood splatters and tire skids; and forensic anthropology (the study of bone structures and features).

Prerequisite:   Junior or senior, completion of Biology I and completion of Algebra II

Materials:  Each student must have a graphing calculator (TI-83, TI-84 or TI-89) that they may take home.

Recommended weight:  Honors
Ms. Brown-Mitchell
also teaches
Honors Physics

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